Stealth Rain Gutter Antenna

It was 1975 and my new bride and i moved into an apartment complex in sterling heights michigan.

Stealth rain gutter antenna. Another stealth antenna using gutters is the christmas lights antenna. It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner. I was eager to get back on the air. Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna.

Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic. Inverted l wire antenna remote tuner required. Bonded together the longer the better gutter downspouts can t be grounded ground and radials required remote tuner required. Rain gutter dipole d a shack c c f f d d c c c d d d spiral dipole d b shack b c c c c c c c d d f f antenna on air stealth tuner install cost 6m 10m 12m 15m 17m 20m 30m 40m 80m 160m.

I was surprised that the gutter tuned up at a. Stealth gutter antenna for ham radio or shortwave. Rain gutter should be a new gutter. Rain gutter antennas are a very old form of stealth antenna and can be very effective but there are some other things you must consider if you want to use your gutters.

During wet weather this type of antenna will usually perform very poorly. Stealth antennas are a compromise multiband antennas are a compromise pick one from the list below. The wood the gutter is mounted to should be dry and of good quality. I did a quick coax run to the outside gutter and grounded the braided side then connected the feedline to an old mfj tuner.

So i just ran an appropriate length of 18 awg speaker wire inside the plastic downspout and horizontal section sealing the ends with waterproof silicone caulk and attached the antenna segment to the main wire of some rg 8 coax while i connected the coax ground braid to buried counterpoise wires. I have wanted to try this for a while but never got around to it until today. I ve always fed gutter antennas from the bottom of a downspout using a coax pigtail one end with an so 239 uhf connector same as what s on the back of most ham cb radios center of the coax going to the gutter and braid going to a nearby grounding point of some kind either a ground rod worst case scenario radials better or groundrod with radials best option. Gutter antenna for ham radio or short wave.

Hf antennas especially stealth models for those in an hoa by dave land kd5fx.